ماشا ريجينا

Publisher: Arab House for Science‎ Publishers Number of pages: 293 The novel "Masha Regina" by author Vadim Levental revolves around the story of a brilliant film director, and its chapters are characterized by vitality, surprising emotion, and astonishing focus. The novel focuses on love, death, the nature of art, and the status of the artist in modern society, making it a complex work reminiscent of similar works such as "Luzhin Defense" by Vladimir Nabokov, and "The Marriage Conspiracy" by Jeffrey Ognidis, alongside films by Milos Forman and Lars von Trier. The author narrates a fictional autobiography about Masha Regina, a young film director struggling to transform from an adolescent student in a rural village to a prominent figure in the European film scene. The protagonist seeks new artistic means to overcome her existential anxiety, but three men are competing to win her. The author Vadim Levental was born in 1981 in Petrograd, studied dramatic acting at college, then left to study languages at Saint Petersburg University, majoring in Russian literature.